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Independent In a dramatic breakthrough that could affect millions of lives, scientists have been able to show for the first time that the body's immune defences can destroy the common cold virus after it has actually invaded the inner sanctum of a human cell, a feat that was believed until...

Waverly Hills Sanatorium Louisville, Kentucky The original Waverly Hills Sanatorium, a two-story wooden structure, was opened in 1910, but the larger brick and concrete structure as it stand today was completed in 1926. The hospital was always dedicated to the treatment of tuberculosis...

Joseph Goetz's alleged attempt to rob a York, Pennsylvania, bank met with some snags. Cops say the first teller he tried to rob fainted and the next two insisted they had no cash in their drawers. Fed up, Goetz stormed out, threatening to write an angry letter to the bank :p

Independent Jan 17 Fifty years ago, President Eisenhower warned of the danger of the 'military-industrial complex'. The huge budget and reach of America's modern defence industry has proved him correct, says Rupert Cornwell If you doubt, half a century on, that Dwight Eisenhower had it...

Guardian Jan 16 Spain is insisting that the United States removes tens of thousands of cubic metres of earth still contaminated by plutonium from unexploded US air force nuclear bombs that accidentally fell in the 1960s. Spain sent a diplomatic note to the Obama administration shortly...

Mercy killing & Assisted suides After reading some really tragic situations where people felt that the only option was to end the life of their spouse, child or parent, fully knowing that they would be arrested, one has to ask: Is the action of mercy killing the crime or being arrested for...

Please don't cry – it upsets a man's sex drive Smelling the tears of a woman can quell a man's sexual desire, according to a study that determined female crying can have a direct chemical impact on male libido. Scientists have found evidence to suggest that tears from a weeping woman...

Independent The nation already has its soccer moms, hockey moms, and even Sarah Palin's merry band of Mamma Grizzlies. But a new brand of pushy parent is suddenly the talk of Middle America: the no-nonsense "Tiger Mother." Amy Chua, a little-known law professor at Yale University, coined...

Independent Humans have proven themselves remarkably adept at learning to do what other animals can do naturally. We have taught ourselves to fly like birds, climb like monkeys and burrow like moles. But the one animal that has always proven beyond our reach is the fish. The invention...

Independent Blame Stella Liebeck. It was her ridiculous lawsuit against McDonald's that started the avalanche. Back in 1992, 79-year-old Stella spilled a cup of McDonald's coffee on her lap and burned herself. Everyone laughed when she declared she was suing McDonald's, until a jury awarded...

Sightly different, but funny nevertheless :p Mitchell Deslatte walked into a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, hotel and asked the clerk for a room. Only, the clerk wasn't a clerk—he was a state trooper. And the hotel was actually a state trooper station. That's when Deslatte was arrested...

The world's most haunted places :eek: First up is ........ :p The White House, Washington, D.C. By Stephen Wagner That's right, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. is not only home to the current President of the United States, it also is home of several former...

ROFL .... I think footall is on the TV is all :D:D

Guardian Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent guardian.co.uk, Thursday 13 January 2011 19.35 GMT EPA vetoes Spruce Number One mine project in West Virginia because it would pose 'unacceptable' threat to surrounding area The Obama administration has vetoed one of the...

BBC News Jan 15 Two US soldiers have been killed when an Iraqi soldier opened fire on them during a training exercise in northern Iraq, US and Iraqi officials say. The officials - speaking on condition of anonymity - said the incident happened at al-Ghazlani training camp in the city of...

AP Jan 15 Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — Women should finally be allowed to serve fully in combat, a military advisory panel said Friday in a report seeking to dismantle the last major area of discrimination in the armed forces. The call by a commission of current and retired...

Telegraph Jan 14 The Pope has approved a miracle attributed to Pope John Paul II's intercession and set May 1 as the date for his beatification Pope Benedict XVI declared in a decree that a French nun's recovery from Parkinson's disease was miraculous, the last step needed for the beloved...

Independent Jan 15 Rain in Brazil, rain in Australia and rain in Sri Lanka. Rain is the factor that links all three large-scale disasters unfolding before our eyes in these very different regions of the world. To try to make sense of what is going on around us, it is understandable to...

A few members have pm'd me asking for hints & suggestions on where to visit in England & all things English :p Please feel free to ask any questions about the UK and I will try my best to answer them (if I can't I know that there are a couple of EO members that may be able to help me out...

BBC News Jan 14 A group of self-styled internet freedom fighters have called for a global day of action in protest at attempts to close down Wikileaks. Anonymous has gained notoriety in recent months for its cyber-attacks on the websites of companies it deems to be anti-Wikileaks. Now...